Waste material left over in the course of excavation, construction, mining, or dredging operations.
That which is taken from another by violence; especially, the plunder taken from an enemy; pillage; booty.
Public offices and their benefits regarded as the peculiar property of a successful party or faction, to be bestowed for its own advantage.
The waste that remains after the minerals have been extracted from an ore by ore dressing.
The feints, the last fraction of product obtained at the end of distillation.